I alone knew what I felt then; however, no sound as if something had snapped was heard. The inner eye of mine was seeing all this clearly ... It was the Brahmarandhra that had got opened and that inner eye was seeing the whole Brahmanada clearly through that opening ... By the water in the head, here, I mean the inner light. Like a powerful searchlight, a powerful beam projected itself through my Brahmarandhra ... With the opening of the Brahmarandhra, that is, on the head being broken, that Brahma entered within, or rather the inner and outer Brahma became one.
Once, while in Khandoba Temple, I was saying: "Oh, I have lost my head." I meant that the head was there, but it had become empty — it contained nothing. What does the newborn child or the child in the mother's womb know? Such must be the state of one's mind.1
Gradually over the period of one year, the Singer began acquiring the knowledge to teach others to sing. Upasni was coming down to creation-consciousness and on regaining body consciousness, Sai Baba sent a devotee with coffee and food to him. The fast of one year ended. From then on, Upasni ate and drank regularly in small amounts until he regained full gross consciousness.
Upasni's period of regaining creation-consciousness occurred between 1912 and 1914, during which time, as mentioned, he lived as a naked ascetic in an abandoned temple infested with snakes and scorpions. By 1914, he had fully regained normal human consciousness. With the grace of Sai Baba, he regained consciousness of the three spheres, Triloka — mental, subtle and gross — after having attained the consciousness of God.
He was now always called Sadguru Upasni Maharaj — a living Perfect Master. The Singer was perfect and could make others hear the Song! Sai Baba declared to his own devotees that Upasni was perfect and would send people to him to listen to the strains of his divine melody. The Singer had attained the knowledge of Sahaj — the Innate state of being. And he had become all-knowing and thus all-powerful.
A doctor named Chidamba Ram Pillay had observed Upasni at Khandoba's Temple during those years. One day in 1913, Upasni had predicted the start of the First World War to Dr. Pillay. When the war began a year later, the doctor's faith in Upasni was strengthened.
Footnotes
- 1.Ibid, p. 194 from a talk in January 1925.